A team from the History Channel is currently in Bermuda trying to solve the mysteries behind two of the Island?s most baffling shipwrecks.

The crew will be filming ? and researching what sent the and the to the bottom.

The results of their investigations will be shown on the channel?s ?Deep Sea Detectives? series in two, one-hour long documentaries to be aired in August and September.

The popular series has already investigated mysterious sinkings around the United States as well as off France, Alaska, Malaysia and Micronesia.

The was an American Civil War blockade runner between Bermuda and Wilmington, North Carolina.

It went down on South Shore near Gibbs Hill Lighthouse on September 6, 1864, amid rumours that it had been sabotaged by Union forces.

The sank on the western reef on January 1, 1880 ? just six hours after legislation expired which would have required a formal investigation.

Jennifer Lorenz, the producer with the Lone Wolf Documentary Group, who arrived in Bermuda on Tuesday to begin ten days of filming, told yesterday: ?We re-open investigations and look back at the sinkings of these vessels.

?Both of these sinkings were quite suspicious in terms of what happened and the events afterwards.

?The motivation of the show is to arrive, like crime scene detectives, and see if any new leads can be found.?

The documentary team includes two technical divers and the project will also involve interviews from conservationists at Bermuda Maritime Museum as well as overseas experts.

?We will be talking to historians and underwater archaeologists,? said Ms Lorenz. ?With both of these wrecks, people are still talking about them and whenever we see an opportunity for an investigation, we move on it.

?The mystery (of the ) is that the boat had a Bermudian pilot on board and, it was supposed to be dropping the pilot off at St. George?s, but instead it was wrecked off Gibbs Hill Lighthouse.

?There was no reason for the pilot to be onboard and there should not have been a problem. The ship sank in six minutes and everyone was saved.

?The cargo was unaccounted for and there is speculation that it was sold on the black market.

?There is speculation that (the ship carried) guns for the Confederates ? and that was why there was never a public auction (nor a) formal investigation of the pilot.

?The Marine Pilot Act was in place, so it made no sense, that there was no investigation. There is speculation it was due to Union bribery or an insurance scuttle.?

The second shipwreck is even more mysterious.

?What is strange about the sinking of the is the timing of it,? said Ms Lorenz. ?The Marine Inquiry Act ? which would have required an investigation ? expired on December 31, 1879, and six hours later on January 1, 1880, it was sunk.?